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Sunday, May 30, 2010

As a lot of you know, 2 times a year, in summer and in winter, the castle of ‘s-Gravenwezel, owned by our famous Belgian antiques dealer and decorator Axel Vervoordt, is open for public.

As I am a huge admirer of the work of Axel and his wife May, I won’t miss any opportunity to visit the castle.

I thought about you, all my readers and blogfriends, and wanted to share with you some pictures I took of the castle and its gorgeous garden! The weather was so beautiful this Friday, so I was able to take a lot of good pictures to share.

Unfortunately, we are not allowed to take pictures of the inside of the castle, that we have to respect because Axel Vervoordt and his family live in it.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

I am in the middle of preparing a redo design of a client’s kitchen. It has to be a completely new designed kitchen. When I suggested my clients to go for a Swedish styled kitchen and after showing them some images of what I meant, they were completely overwhelmed!

The 3 first pictures are of the kitchen situation right now. It is not a huge space, so I really have to be thoughtful about bringing in all the required kitchen appliances. But first of all I am thinking about the atmosphere, the cozyness, the colours I would love to use, the Swedish furniture I want to bring in,…

1. View from the dining corner towards the kitchen isle.

2. View from the kitchen isle towards the dining corner.

3. The window with the radiator about which I maybe have already an idea (see further in this post).

I would love to use the Swedish white-grey tones as in some inspirational images here.(Of some images I really don’t know the source. Please forgive me for using maybe one of yours!)

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We really need to bring in a round table as my clients have in the dining corner at this moment, because of the lack of space to use a long straight one.

One of my favorite images! That corner bench is so beautiful! And I love the identical checked fabric for table linen and chair upholstery.

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Do you notice the window seat?

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This is the type of Swedish panelling I definitely want to bring in!

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So that is how I want to cover the radiator under the window in my client’s kitchen (see picture 3). I know that I have to use a grid on top and maybe make an opening in the skirting for heat circulation.

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Love that floor!

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Or this terracotta floor!

In a lot of Swedish houses you will notice the beautiful Gustavian benches as in the picture above!!

LIVING IN BELGIUM

Living in Belgium, working as a designer at our interior design company Lefèvre Interiors, I started this blog to share with you my passion for design and decorating. With this blog I try to express my design ideas and I do hope to inspire you as much as possible. And of course I love to tell you about Belgian design and architecture from time to time. Thank you for visiting Belgian Pearls and please, leave a comment, I ‘d love to hear from you.